Tagged “software”

2025-10-08 Networking naming anti-pattern
2025-08-19 Deoptimized web search and SEO
2025-08-14 Social web is dead, or not
2025-08-08 Mersenne twister - random number generator
2025-07-13 Nine of ten gone
2025-07-11 Competed Once
2025-05-11 UTF-8 is now Everywhere
2023-07-03 Linux distributions as airliners
2023-06-16 Cloud is Fierce
2016-08-30 Private clouds and the future
2016-07-27 Prelude to an experiment, and down the rabbit-hole
2016-07-22 Explosive decompression of de-duplicated storage
2016-07-15 VMware is doomed
2016-07-14 Measure of rolling hash
2016-07-04 Catching up on web applications
2016-06-27 A measure of Skein
2015-06-28 Programming Myths
2015-03-06 Private subnets and development
2015-02-25 OpenFlow and SDN
2015-02-16 Analysis Paralysis
2015-02-01 Are Big Companies Odd?
2015-01-05 Example - Mersenne Twister random number generator
2015-01-01 Example - feed-workers
2014-12-30 Moving forward prior examples
2014-12-04 Security in numbers
2014-12-04 Security by number
2014-12-04 Security and time
2014-10-29 Multiplier
2013-08-31 Choosing ordered distinct random integers
2012-03-18 Another Lisp flashback
2011-04-15 Story based reasoning and interviews
2011-04-15 Segregation - Partition the problem
2011-04-15 Firsts
2011-02-02 Example of certificate creation with OpenSSL
2010-08-15 Strict mode for Javascript - continued
2010-07-31 Strict mode for Javascript
2010-07-16 VirtualBox as free software
2010-07-12 Odds and ends in testing with Active Directory
2010-06-22 Java for Business = Zinger from Oracle
2010-03-31 Do you trust Oracle?
2010-03-15 Re-thinking the IDE - a starting point
2010-01-31 Multiplexed FastCGI connections?
2010-01-17 Giving up HTML@W3C
2010-01-16 Efficient UTF-8 recoding and secure processing
2010-01-12 UTF8/UCS conversion benchmark
2010-01-08 Musing about cumulative impact
2009-12-30 Almost but not quite ... server-side JavaScript
2009-12-24 Wireless network and Linux
2009-12-23 Trie in Java - revisited
2009-11-30 Identifying and documenting bugs in Sun Java Printing
2009-10-24 First impressions - Google Wave
2009-10-16 PrinterJob.pageDialog() in Java is broken?
2009-10-05 Example - general purpose Trie in Java
2009-10-02 Concurrency and threading is the new thing, again.
2009-08-26 Building things
2009-08-18 Extending the Pearson hash function to larger values
2009-08-05 Installing Pidgin with support for Microsoft IM
2009-06-17 Subversion, CVS, and tags
2009-03-26 Windows 2008 Server
2009-03-09 My Google Android phone
2009-03-03 Are designers stuck in a rut?
2009-02-22 How to get started?
2009-02-03 Elegant distributed applications
2009-02-02 Long-term compatible protocols
2009-01-30 Scripting inspired by Monad - for Unix
2009-01-26 RSS-Atom
2008-12-21 Performance parsing CSV data
2008-11-15 Microsoft Office Project Server
2008-09-19 Paper size and user interface design
2008-09-17 Covering a use-case for many screens
2008-09-15 Google's Chrome - Bet your enterprise on it
2008-09-14 Design for standard screen sizes
2008-08-29 JVM invocation - the Sun/Java folk screw up again.
2008-08-19 The stock File Open dialog is wrong.
2008-08-18 Why FileInputStream is slow - continued
2008-08-10 Desktop design needs a kick in the pants
2008-08-05 Google and Programming
2008-07-29 Today's surprise - applet reload does not sandbox
2008-07-19 Linus is a bit of a jerk
2008-06-22 Why FileInputStream is slow.
2008-06-18 Wide Finder 2 - over to the dark side
2008-06-13 Wrapping up Wide Finder 2
2008-06-12 Wide finder - final result
2008-06-12 Wide finder - combine for top N
2008-06-10 Wide finder - combine and sort
2008-06-08 Wide finder - first round
2008-06-07 Sun and tools
2008-06-01 Received a Microsoft Office XML document...
2008-06-01 Another reason for "open" document formats
2008-05-31 Is IIS still (as) relevant?
2008-03-22 One guy's take on the iPhone user interface
2008-03-21 Convert at the edges
2008-02-23 White box programming
2008-02-18 Fun with IIS 5.1 on Windows XP
2008-01-03 This is still bugging me...
2007-11-30 Wrapping up "Wide Finder"
2007-11-22 What you need for a "Wide Finder", and no more.
2007-11-21 Dumb software design - overloading Windows Startup
2007-11-14 Netbeans love-hate
2007-11-14 Dumb GUI example - menubars
2007-11-12 The Wide Finder Project
2007-11-01 Using Eclipse to improve NetBeans
2007-10-20 trackerd and Ubuntu 7.10
2007-10-19 Product activation - Corel just lost a customer
2007-09-16 Hot memory
2007-08-29 Not the definition of "lean"
2007-08-17 User centered social networks
2007-08-03 Java’s Fear of Commitment
2007-07-23 Example of configuring Trac and Subversion on Ubuntu
2007-06-14 Mapping components - Javascript
2007-06-14 examples
2007-06-14 Auto-adjusting sizer - Javascript
2007-06-12 Safari on Windows!
2007-06-10 Bouncing JSON requests - Javascript
2007-06-09 Simple Base64 encode/decode - Javascript
2007-06-09 Reading parameters from URL - Javascript
2007-06-09 Reading and saving cookies - Javascript
2007-05-17 Semantics, AI, and the Web
2007-05-14 Microsoft's last grasp
2007-05-05 Programming for the web - Javascript
2007-05-05 HTML at the W3C
2007-04-30 More reliable voting
2007-04-18 Spreadsheets and Javascript
2007-04-07 Yet another JSON implementation - Javascript
2007-03-29 REST should not be "uniform"
2007-03-24 Sun is cool
2007-03-15 Clarifying HTML
2007-03-09 Sudoku
2007-03-08 Power failure
2007-03-07 Publish or Perish
2007-03-07 Connecting the dots - Ubuntu and Java
2007-02-26 Why buy new server versions of Windows?
2007-02-24 Structured documents, DITA, DocBook, and Wikis
2007-02-23 OpenID is a big win
2007-02-21 Frustrated with WYSIWYG document editors
2007-02-17 Introducing RDFa - or re-implementing Lisp, kinda
2007-02-17 Benchmarking and FastCGI
2007-02-15 microformats revisited
2007-02-15 Bitfrost for OLPC - The revenge of Microsoft Bob
2007-02-01 Buildix alternate download
2007-01-22 First impressions - Visual Studio 2005
2007-01-13 2007 and ending needless repetition
2007-01-02 Mersenne twister - random number generator
2007-01-02 How not to introduce your project
2006-12-30 Do web server logs return useful information, anymore?
2006-12-29 WHATWG - What for?
2006-12-23 Another FastCGI install script
2006-12-19 Revisiting server-side Javascript
2006-12-13 What Are XForms?
2006-11-11 Server-side parsing of HTML to DOM
2006-11-09 Adobe, Mozilla, and Tamarin
2006-11-01 Slightly broken weblog ... and inspiration
2006-10-29 Pity the "average" user
2006-08-21 Subtext - and alternate representations of program structure
2006-08-08 Why bother?
2006-07-12 What makes a good "Databox"?
2006-06-26 New Ubuntu and VMware Server install
2006-06-15 Kind of annoying, actually
2006-06-15 Breakage - or misapplication?
2006-06-12 REST notes
2006-06-11 Impressed with Ubuntu Upgrade
2006-06-09 Java and Gnome
2006-06-04 Javascript on the server
2006-06-01 Understanding RAID-Z
2006-05-31 chandanlog(3C) - The Story of OpenGrok - the Wicked Fast Source Browser
2006-04-23 Algorithm - Find Greatest Sequence
2006-03-19 Ubuntu, Debian, and Java
2006-03-11 It's Google and users, not Microsoft
2006-03-08 (non)expert advice from ZNet
2006-02-26 Argh - Windows (re-)installation woes
2006-01-31 User Interface Goals
2006-01-28 Measure of a mindset and end-to-end checks
2006-01-19 IIS Troubleshooting and VMware
2006-01-16 Open Microsoft Formats?
2006-01-01 IIS6 troubleshooting advice
2006-01-01 Dirty play - Massachusetts and Microsoft
2005-12-27 jsp:plugin grief (cont'd)
2005-12-27 Java Applets that "just work"
2005-12-26 jsp:plugin grief
2005-12-09 SCO Raises New Funding
2005-12-06 Open source, and when not
2005-12-03 Two points worth repeating
2005-12-03 HP system customers got the message
2005-11-20 Xen, Java and Web Hosting
2005-11-18 Sun and ZFS
2005-11-18 Setting up Ubuntu, VMware and Windows
2005-11-05 Postel’s Law - liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you generate
2005-11-03 ACT & Boston ODF Day
2005-11-02 Sony - clueless about software?
2005-10-19 Jini and XML
2005-10-17 How Swing Components are displayed (Tell me it isn't so!)
2005-10-16 Passwords on the web as a security risk
2005-10-12 Is Microsoft becoming Burroughs?
2005-09-19 Insecure voting
2005-09-19 ... but wait ...
2005-09-12 mouse test
2005-08-29 Credit where due - to Microsoft
2005-08-21 $$ Inertia in markets
2005-08-19 Follow that car! - new Microsoft Patent
2005-08-14 Fingerprinting Paper
2005-08-09 Longhorn and RSS
2005-08-04 Automatic Surveillance Via Cell Phone
2005-08-03 Hitting the High Notes
2005-08-03 Instant Outlining
2005-07-04 A step in the right direction
2005-06-26 Apple going to Intel - yet another speculation
2005-06-15 Web-based command-line interpreter
2005-06-07 IBM really blew it with the PowerPC
2005-05-27 OASIS Office Document Standards
2005-05-18 Java Harmony
2005-05-13 Web versus desktop - a personal example
2005-05-11 Mobile Web Design
2005-04-21 Google Doom
2005-04-16 CDDL - Sun's license for Solaris
2005-04-09 Ubuntu - seems to be it
2005-04-06 Playing with Linux/Solaris again
2005-04-05 Use the web (Microsoft Windows Media)
2005-04-05 No software patents means no software patents
2005-04-01 What happened to Yahoo!?
2005-04-01 Dubious DVDs
2005-03-31 Fedora core
2005-03-30 Usability references
2005-03-30 Solaris 10 attempt
2005-03-30 Debian install - sort'a
2005-03-26 No small fonts, please
2005-03-26 Designing a better cell phone user interface
2005-03-20 A good use for the <blink> tag
2005-03-05 Carly's Way
2005-02-19 ajax - a new approach to web applications
2005-02-16 Is Ada one of the "Technology Losers"?
2005-02-16 Groupware?
2005-02-15 Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
2005-02-02 Welcome to Solaris?
2005-01-31 Building a better string class
2005-01-30 Building a better string class - what advantage in copy-on-write for std::string?
2005-01-30 Building a better string class - sentinels and wrap up
2005-01-30 Building a better string class - comparing class implementations
2005-01-23 Speed versus complexity in User Interface interaction
2005-01-21 Jonathan and IBM
2005-01-19 Structure editors, IDEs, and another Lisp flashback
2005-01-18 A diversion into hash tables and binary searches
2005-01-17 How to build a better string class - and a surprise
2005-01-17 Continued - building a better string class - assumptions revised
2005-01-11 IBM Press room - Press releases
2005-01-08 Legacy of Dhrystone
2005-01-05 Screwed by Microsoft
2005-01-02 What do we really need from a database?
2004-12-31 Battling the antibodies
2004-12-30 Reverse Proxies and the "Location" or "Content-Location" headers.
2004-12-30 One IDE to Rule Them All?
2004-12-26 isapi_reward restart
2004-12-05 Optimal code
2004-11-15 Can We Please Bury the Netscape Metaphor?
2004-11-14 Good stuff - Kitten's Spaminator
2004-11-10 Islands in the distance
2004-10-09 What happened to Microsoft?
2004-10-09 Server-side Java performance
2004-08-22 Patents and Linux
2004-08-22 Maybe using XHTML is not such a good idea
2004-08-22 Litmus tests for Java
2004-08-20 Sun was cool
2004-08-06 Upgraded my wireless network
2004-08-02 IBM and Linux
2004-07-27 Compilers - back to basics
2004-07-11 Klunky user interfaces
2004-07-11 iChat AV
2004-07-05 isapi_reward preview
2004-07-03 Sam Ruby - Knot Theory
2004-06-26 ACDK
2004-06-24 Why open-source Java?
2004-06-24 Lisp and blurring the line between code and data.
2004-06-24 A crossroads in software development.
2004-06-23 Databases, object "prevalence", and OODBMS flavors
2004-06-19 Massively scalable wikis
2004-06-16 Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client.
2004-06-13 Hackers and Painters
2004-06-12 CVS, Windows, and timezone confusion
2004-06-10 ActiveCVS
2004-06-06 Weblogs, Wikis and too many constraints
2004-06-04 Source code control and precluding errors
2004-06-04 OpenOffice and XML
2004-06-04 Genx - portable XML generation in "C"
2004-06-04 Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo
2004-05-27 Vintage - software?
2004-05-14 Finding Lisp
2004-05-08 Long Bets - Passing the Turing test by 2029
2004-04-15 Universal Calendars and Scheduling?
2004-01-31 Talk at UCI
2004-01-29 Web protocol library